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NICHOLAS DEDRICK, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

ENGRAVlNG-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 614,845, dated November 29, 1888.

Application filed April is, 1897.

Serial No. 632,387. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NICHOLAS DEDRIOK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Punch and Die Cutting and Engraving Machine, which are fully set forth in the following specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof.

This invention relates to mechanism for cutting raised or intaglio designs in metal for the purpose of punches or dies or engravingplates, and it is particularly designed for doing such work in the form necessary for the purpose of making printing-type, the dies be ing of the nature of matrices for use in typecasting machines, the punches being for use in sinking such dies by driving, as well understood. The particular class to which the invention belongs is that in which the course of the cutting-tool upon the block upon which it operates to produce the die or punch is guided and controlled. by mechanism of the nature of a pantograph, with which there is associated a tracer which follows a pattern or templet, upon an enlarged scale, of the letter ,or other form to be produced in the die or punch.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a general plan of a machine embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the portion ofsaid machine constituting the pattern-holding stand and the tracercarrier. Fig. 4 is an elevation, looking in the same direction as Fig. 3, of the tool and Work carrying portion of the machine, the pantograph and lever connections therefrom to the tracer-head and the base bein g cut at an intermediate point between the two. Fig. 5 is a detail plan showing the pantograph and lever connections between the tracer-carrier and the work-carrier and said carriers adjusted to translate the fore-and-aft movements of the tracer into oblique movement of the work, as for producing an Italic letter from ortholineal design. Fig. (5 is a detail fore-and-aft axial section of the toolholder head, showing the tool therein. Fig. 7 is a detail section at the line 7 7 on Fig. 6. Fig. 8 is a plan of a ball-controlling device for a ball-bearing in said head. Fig. 9 is an elevation of a coupling-sleeve on said head. Fig. 10' is a perspective of the tool-setting collar thereon. Fig. 11 is a detail plan of the work-carrier with a form of Work-holder adapted for holding punch-blanks mounted thereon. Fig. 12 is a section at the line 12 12 on Fig. 11. Fig. 13 is a detail plan of the foreand-aft slideway of the work-carrier. Figs. 14 and 15 are detail sections at the lines 14 14 and 15 15, respectively, on Figs. 2 and -12, showing certain endless tracks or courses for balls constituting antifriction-bearings for the sliders, said views illustrating also a con structionwhich would be shown at the planes of the sections indicated on Figs. 3 and 4 by the lines 14 14 and 15 15 on said figures, the proportions or dimensions at such sections, however, not necessarily agreeing with those of Figs. 14 and 15. Fig. 16 is a detail section at the line 1616 on Fig. 12. Figs. 17, 18, 19, 20, and 21 are detail sections at the lines 17 17,18 18, 19 19, 20 20, and 21 21, respectively, on Fig. 1, showing the structure of the antifriction pivotal and sliding joints of the pantograph and lever systems which connect the sliders of the two compound beds. Figs. 22 and 23 are respective plan and elevation of a sliding pivot-block for certain lever connections. Fig. 24 is a detail section at the line 24 24 on Fig. 11. Fig. 25 is a detail front elevation of a work-holder for punch-blanks. Fig. 26 is a detail rear left-hand-corner elevation of the same. Fig. 27 is a detail section at 27 27 on Fig 25. Fig. 28 is a plan of a Work-holder suitable for holding die-blocks. Fig. 29 is a front elevation of the same; Fig. 30 is a section at the line 30 30 on Fig. 29. Fig. 31 is a section at theline 31. 31 on Fig. 28. Fig. 32 is a plan of a holder for plates tobe engraved or cut for patterns. Fig. 33 is a detail section at the line 33 33 on Fig. Fig. 34 is'a detail front elevation of the toolholder head, showing a setting device thereon. I

Fig. 35 is a section at the line 35 35 on Fig. 34. Fig. 36 is a detail section at the line'36 36 on Fig. 3. Fig. 37 is an axial section of the tracerholder. Fig. 38 is a perspective of a pivotal lifting-collar on the tracer-holding chuck. Fig. 39 is a detail section ofgage stop-collar pertaining to a guiding device on the tracercarrier traveler. latch associated therewith.

Fig. 40 is an elevation of a Fig. 41 is aplan ICO of the pantograph, showing an attachment thereto for the purpose of improving its action when adjusted for reducing at very large rates. Fig. 42 is a detail section of a couplingjoint in the liquid-duct which connects the tracer-holder with the tool-holder. Figs. 43 and 44 represent, respectively, a punch and matrix pattern and forms of tracer suitable for reproducing proportional, condensed, and extended production therefor. Fig. 45 illustrates a condensed and extended form of the same letter produced from the same pattern by the use of a circular tracer.

The general plan of my machine is as follows:

Upon a rigid bed A, I support two sets of compound beds, the lower member of each set having movement in one direction on the base and the upper member having movement in a transverse direction upon said lower member, the upper member of one set having a head which carries a tracer and the upper member of the other set having a head whichcarries work-that is, a blank block or plate to be out. On the same base A, I support a table which carries a pattern underneath the tracer, and on said base also I support a frame which carries a tool overhanging the work holder. The corresponding; travelers or sliding beds or plates of the two sets are connected, one set by simple lever connections and the other set. by pantograph connections, said lever and pantograph connections having provision for adjustment on their respective pivots, so that the movement of each traveler of the set from which movement originates may be transmitted to the corresponding traveler of the other set, multiplied or reduced in a ratio independent of that which obtains in the transmission of the m ovement of the other traveler of the first set to its corresponding traveler in the second set.

Another feature consists in the transmission of vertical movement from the tracer which overhangs the pattern to the tool which overhangs the work, so that when the tracer is raised out of the pattern the tool will be raised out of the work, and when the tracer is depressed in the pattern the tool will be also depressed, such transmission of movement being effected by means of a liquid contained in a closed conduit which connects cylinders on the two heads, respectively,in which pistons connected to the tracer and toolholder, respectively, operate.

Upon the base A there is secured a trackplate B, which is adjustable through a considerable angle each way from the direct foreand-aft direction of tracks or guideways with which it is provided, and for the purpose of such angular adjustment said track-plate has the segmental apertures b I) in lateral flanges B B, and bolts A A pass through said apertures, taking into the base A, as illustrated in Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 5.

13 is a traveler mounted above the trackplate 13 and having movement in the guideways of the track-plate. Upon the upper permitted by the extent of the segmental 8o apertures b. Upon the track-plate l3 and adapted to have movement and be guided along its guideways or tracks is a second traveler B, and upon the upper side of this traveler is mounted the standard I of --the tracer-holder hereinafter described.

I provide ball-bearings in the several tracks between the track-plates and the travelers designed to move thereon not only in the set of beds now being described, but in the other set hereinafter to be described, and the particular construction of these ball-bearings being substantially similar at all points at which they are employed the one description will answer for all, and similar letters of reference will be applied to similar parts in all these hearings so far as possible, and are illustrated in detail in Figs. 11., 12, 13, 14, 15, and 16.

In the construction of the tracks and the relation thereto of the ball-bearin gs provided therein I aim not merely to permit close adjustment without binding 1aterallythat is, in respect to horizontal movement-but also to retain the parts against separation vertically and prevent the possibility of vertical play, not relying upon the weight of the beds to prevent vertical movement. For this purpose upon each of the track-plates 1 form a broad rib D, having overhanging lateral flanges which are beveled at their under sides, and upon each of the travelers I provide depending lateral flanges E e, the flange E having horizontal inwardly-projecting flange E, and alongside the flange e I secure to the traveler a gib E in the form of a hanger rabbeted or L-shaped in crosssection, with a rabbet open upward and inward toward the downwardly-beveled or overhanging .flange D" of the rib D at that side of the longitudinal rib D of the track-plate, said gib being adjustable laterally toward and from the rib D and secured by the screws E and stopped by means of screws a", set through the flange 0 at that side. Between the overhanging downwardly-beveled flanges D D and the underhanging inwardly-projecting flanges of the rib E and of the gib E, respectively, are located balls F F, dsc, which thus obtain their tracks in the facing surfaces of said overhanging and underhanging parts, respectively; also, between the upper face of the track-plate B, outside the rib D and in the lower side or edge of the flange E, are provided IIO til 1,845

traclis for other balls F F, which take the direct load of the traveler on the track-plate, the balls F F, &c., serving to relieve the friction which will be due to lateral close adjustment of the parts, which is effected by the setting up of the gib E, and also to relieve the friction due to crowding and holding down the traveler onto the horizontal ball-tracks, which results from the lateral adjustment of the gib by reason of the oblique relation of the beveled ball-seats. In order that the gibs may be adjusted precisely without danger of binding them too tightly or indenting the balls in their seats, I provide springs 6, reacting between the gib and the side flange of the traveler. To set the gib properly, the screws E are loosened and the springs allowed to set the gib up against the balls. The screws E are then tightened and the screws 6" are set up against the gib and hold it positively without reliance on the screws E, which are useful simply to prevent the screw e from crowding the gib when they are set up against it.

In order that the balls may not travel out of their tracks as the travelers reciprocate upon the track-plates, I form the ball-coursesin an endless circuit, of which the ball-tracks above described constitute only one side, the remainder of the course being what may be termed an idle trackthat is, a track in which no pressure or load is experienced by the balls. For the balls F F, &c., I form the return or idle track f in the upper outer portion of the traveler, and for the balls F between the horizontal tracks 1 form the returnpath at f in a position inward and downward from said horizontal tracks in the trackplate. For the purpose of connecting the two parallel portions of the endless course of the balls I secure to the ends of the track-plate the return-bends G G, and to the travelers, at each corner of the opposite ends, I secure the fittings having the return-bends G G and, in addition, the caps G G", which cover the balls F in the horizontal tracks where the traveler in its reciprocation toward one limit of its path on the track-plate would uncover a portion of the balls at the other end of the track-plate. This description will answer for all the ball-bearings which are formed between the track-plates and travelers thereof on both sets of beds and for the purpose of movements in both directions.

The work-carrier is constructed similar to the tracer-carrier and is illustrated in Figs. 1, 2, 4, 5, 11, 12, 13, and 24. II is a lower track-plate, having flanges II II, provided with segmental slots h h, for bolts A gwhich secure it with capability of angular adjustment to the base A. H is the traveler, which has fore-and-aft movement on the track-plate II, and H is the upper track-plate, secured with capability of angular adjustment upon the track-plate H by bolts h, taking through segmental slots h in flanges H H is the upper traveler, which has right and left movement over the track-plate H and supports the work-holder, whoselower plate J is secured to said upper traveler Hf".

As above stated, the fore-and-aft movement of the lower traveler 13 of the tracercarrier is transmitted to the lower traveler H of the work-carrier by lever connections. They are as follows: To the traveler 13 there is secured a bar P, which projects rearward and is adjustable fore and aft, and at its rear end it has a cross-bar P, provided with a 1ongitudinal slot 19, in which an abutment mounted on the lower side of a lever P obtains guidance. Said abutment, which is illustrated in detail in Figs. 22 and. 23, consists of a frame or block P, having rolls 1) ppp at its four corners and split longitudinally for a distance from each end and having a tapering screw P set into it, adapted to spread it slightly at the split ends to keep the rolls 19 against the sides of the slot 19. The traveler H is also provided with a rearwardly-projecting arm Q, said arm being also adjustable fore and aft in the traveler H and having at its rear end a cross-head Q, in which a second abutment P, identical in all respects with the first and pivoted to the lever P, obtains guidance. The bars P and Q are adj ustably secured in their respective travelers in the manner shown in Fig. 13, wherein the attachment of the bar Q is illustrated, and description of this bar will suffice for both. The baris forked or divided by a slot which extends entirely to the forward end, but not tothe rearend. The edges of the slot are rabbeted at q and the traveler II has a fore-and-aft groove h, in which the bar Q hangs, being fastened to the traveler H by means of screws q and g, which pass through the traveler from above and into the clamping-blocks g, which are rabbeted and engaged in the rabbets q of the bar Q. To the base A, at one of the several selected points, as at A, there is secured and adapted to be adjusted by rotation and sliding and to be made fast the arm A. To the end of this arm the lever P is pivoted by means of a slide-block A, which is directly pivoted to the bar A and clamped onto the lever P. It will be understood that the connection thus effected between the lower traveler of the tracer-carrier and the corresponding traveler of the work-carrier causes the fore-and-aft movement of the former to be transferred to the latter, either reversed in direction or not, and modified in extent according to the position of thefulcrum of the lever P which is adjustable at will by the means described.

For the purpose of communicating the rightand-left movements of the upper traveler of the tracer-carrier to the corresponding traveler of the work-carrier I provide pantograph connections which are illustrated in Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 24, as follows: To the top of said upper traveler of the tracer-carrier B I secure by two rearwardly-projecting arms I) b a bar 13, which extends parallel with the tracks or guideways which control the travel of said traveler in itstrack on the track-plate B, said bar being at the rear of the traveler, and being mounted on the upper side of the supporting-arm B it is a little higher than said traveler. On this bar 13 there is an adjustable pivot-block B provided with a set-screw b to secure it in adjusted position on the bar 13 and to said block is pivoted one end of the pantographlever B. The companion lever B of the pantograph is pivoted to said lever B at r at the rear ends of both said levers, and at the forward end said lever R is pivoted at r to the end of an arm H, which is rigidly fastened at the top of the post H, which is adjustably secured on the bar 11, which is made fast to the rear track-plate II, at the rear side thereof, and extends parallel with the tracks or guideways thereon. The post H is made fast in adjusted position on the bar H by a set-screw 71 R and R are companion pantograph levers pivoted together at r" at their forward ends and having adjustable pivotal connection with the bars R and R, respectively, at R and R respectively. These adjustable sliding connections are made by sliding blocks R having dovetailed slide-seats for the bars, respectively, and set-screws s, by which they may be clamped to their respective bars, two of such blocks being pivoted back to back, so that both blocks, being clamped to their respective bars and having pivotal motion with respect to each other, give such pivotal action about the same pivot to the bars to which they are respectively clamped. The pantograph system thus described being intended to transmit right-and-left movement from the upper traveler of the tracer-carrier to the upper traveler of the. work-carrier, the pivot 9' being the fixed fulcrum of the pantograph for the purpose of such lateral movement and said fixed fulcrum having itself the fore-andaft movement of the lower traveler, it becomes necessary to provide a connection from the pivot 7' to the traveler II, which shall be suitable for moving said traveler laterallythat is, right and leftand at the same time shall accommodate the fore-and-aft movement of the pivot 0-", which it may derive from the fore-and'aft movement of the lower traveler. For this purpose I mount upon the traveler II a bar I'l having for purposes hereinafter mentioned capacity for angular adjustment with respect to said traveler, but designed in all ordinary use of the device to extend directly fore and aft--that is, at right angles to the right-and-left track of said traveler and having the longitudinal slot W, in which the pivot r obtains fore-and-aft guidance, said pivot being extended through the levers which it connects and into a slide block or frame similar to P which is provided with antifriction-rolls 1*, which occupy the slot h This pantograph mechanism, it will be understood ,transmits the right-and-left move- .transmit the transverse movements may be adjusted independently of the adjustment of the lever, so as to modify the transmitted movement to any different degree, it will be evident that a pattern which the path of the tracer mounted on the upper plate of the tracer-carrier might trace, would be transmitted to the work mounted on the upper traveler of the work-carrier, modified as to fore-and-aft directions in one ratio and modified as to right and left dimensions in an entirely dilferent ratio. In addition to these modifications, which are independent of each ot-her,itwill be evident that if,for example,the lower track-plate of each of the carriers be adjusted to an oblique position on the bed, as seen, for example, in Fig. 5, so that the foreand-aft movements of the travelers guided on said track-plates could not be directly fore and aft, but oblique, a directly fore-andaft movement of the tracer mounted on the upper traveler of the tracer-carrier would be possible only because the said upper traveler would take, with respect to its track-plate, a right-and-left movement to accommodate and compensate for the right and left element of the oblique fore-and-at't movement of the track-plate of said upper traveler, which would move with the lower traveler in its oblique movement, and that therefore there would result to the work-carrier from such direct fore-and-aft movement of the tracer an oblique fore-andaft movement of the work. This, it will be observed, would cause a fixed tool operating upon the work taking such movement to produce, for example, from an ortholineal letterpattern which the tracer might follow an oblique or italicized letter design in the work. A similar result will be obtained by keeping the two travelers of both carriers at right angles to each other and setting the guides ll at an oblique angle to the traveler paths.

Then the pantograph mechanism is set at proper position for reducing from the pattern to the work in a high ratio-as, for example, reducing to a scale one one-hundredth of the patternthe pantograph-bar R is necessarily set almost directly under the bar R, and the motion is communicated through levers by movements of the several bars in which the axes of the pivots which are moving toward each other or past each other or separated by a distance very much less than the diameters of the pivots. This cannot be illustrated visually with the pantograph set for reduction in so large a ratio as to involve the difficulty which in such case is experienced in its most acute form, but in Fig. 41 I have shown an adjustment to the pantograph such as to suggest the nature of the difficulty which would be experienced if the ratio were much greater. This difficulty consists, it will be seen, in that the power is transmitted by an extremely short lever-arm operating at an extremely disadvantageous angle, so that in a case where extreme accuracy is more essenl 5 tial than either the pantograph-arms are liable to spring and defeat such accuracy. To remedy this defect when such extreme adjustments of the pantograph are necessary, I.

provide asupplemental device, (shown in Fig.

41,) consisting of a lever R fulcrumed at its middle point on the lever B at h, the middle point of the latter, and having its forward end connected by the link R to the middle point of the lever B, the rear end of the link R being connected by an extensible link R to a sliding pivot-block R mounted on the lever R. The length of the lever R between its extreme pivotal connections is equal to that of the lever B, and the link R 0 is half that length, so that from its pivot on the lever R the distance is equal to the pivotal connection of said link to the lever R and to the pivot of the lever R on the block 3. The block R' is mounted on the bar R at such point that the distance between the pivot of the link R' and the pivot of the lever R to the lever R is the half-length of the lever R or' the length of the link R In a order that this distance may be promptly de- 0 termined without measurement, I secure to the pivot-block R a spacing-rod 7, which extends along one side of the lever R and abuts against the slide-block R on said lever R when the block R is at such distance from the block R as to pass the pivots, as

stated. Whenever the pantograph is adjusted for such great reduction as to make it desirable to employ this auxiliary appliance, it is put into place after the pantograph is adjusted, the two-part link B r being adjusted and having its parts secured together,

so that the parts between the pivotal connections of said link to the block R and the lever R, respectively, isequal to the distance between the pivotal connection of the levers R and R and the pivot of the lever R to the lever R. Thus attached and adjusted it will be seen that the link R lever R, and link R r serve to transmit the movement precisely in the same ratio as a mathematically exact action of the pantograph without the additional appliance .would transmit it, but with the advantage that the power is directed and applied upon the lever R by connection with a long arm of the lever-to wit, an arm whose length is the distance between the pivotal connections of the levers R R and the pivot of the link to the block R instead of or rather in addition to the application of power also on the short arm of the lever, measuring from the pivot which-connects the levers R R to the pivot which connects the levers R and R, and thereby the movement is rendered easier and less liable to strain the pivots or spring the bars of the pantograph.

All the joints of the pantograph are provided with ball-bearings, so that they may be set tightly enough to prevent any play or lost motion without binding sufficiently either to cause the arms to spring or to render resistance too great. In case ofthe pivots which are adapted to be adjusted upon both the arms, which are pivoted together, the ballbearings are formed as shown in Fig. 17,which is a section through the pantograph-levers R and R", the blocks R R having the circular V-shaped grooves r facing each other and forming the counterpart seats for the balls therein. A washer R let into the bottom of the dovetailed channel in the lower block R around the pivot, has its upper surface facing a circular groove in the bottom of the channel around a pivot-bolt, and said pivotbolt r set through the washer and through the lower block, is screwed firmly into the upper block R and may be set so that the balls take the wear properly. The pivot of the bar R to the block 13 represents another form of joint suited to this special situation. The upper side of the block and the lower side of the bar are provided with circular grooves about the pivot-bolt, and on the upper side of the bar there is a washer R, which faces a circular groove in the upper side of the bar, and the pivot-bolt r, set through the washer and the bar R, is screwed into the block and serves to seat the pivotal joint as closely as desired, the pressure of the adjustment being received by the balls. A third form of joint is formed between the bars R and R, the pivot being guided in the bar H This jointis shown in Fig. 18 and is as follows: The two bars are provided with the facing grooves, and the washer'R below the lower bar is provided with a groove which faces a like groove in the lower side of said bar, and the pivot-bolt 7"" takes through a slide block or frame R precisely similar to the block P which guides a pivot of the lever P in the cross-bar P. (See Fig. 22.) The pivot-boltr has a flange 1" under the block or frame R and said bolt has the shoulder 1", which stops against the under side of the washer R- and the bolt being screwed into the upper bar tightens the ball-bearings, as desired. Another style of joint is that shown in Fig. 19,which represents the pivot between the pantograph-bars R and R, which is similar to the joint shown in Fig. 21, the bar occupying the relation to the joint which in Fig. 21 is taken by the block 13, the bar R having the relation to the joint which in Fig. 21 is occupied by the bar R. The upper washer R is of the same form in ICC both joints. The pivot between the bolt R and the arm II is identical in form with the joint last described. The pivotal connection of the lever P to the arm A by means of the sliding block A is constructed with ballbearings, as seen in Fig. 20, the pivot-bolt P having a ball-track formed on the under side of its head facing a ball-track on the upper side of the arm A, said arm and the block A having ball-tracks facing each other, and the pivot-bolt being passed through the arm A and screwed into the block A. In all these joints it will be noticed that the entire friction of the pivotal action is on the balls which by their engagement with their annular tracks or sea-ts determine the pivotal axis and center the parts about such axis without any friction on the bolt, which need not have any contact whatever with the parts which it penetrates.

The work-holder bed, which is illustrated in Figs. 1, 2, t, 25, 26, and 27, comprises the lower track-plate J, secured on the top of the upper traveler H of the work-carrier, being arranged to permit angular adjustment horizontally with respect to said traveler by the segmental slots J through which the bolts j take, by which it is secured to said traveler. The track or guideway of this plate is the dovetailed rib 7", on which the fore-and-aft adjustable bed J is mounted and adapted to slide, its movement on said track being controlled by the screw J, which is longitudinallystopped by the forward side of the trackplate .1, and as to its threaded portion extends in a channel J formed longitudinally midway in the rib j said screw taking into a lug J, which projects down from the bed J into said channel .1. The screw J terminates in a milled head J, by which it may be operated at will to adjust the work-holder bed fore and aft. Upon the upper side of the sliding bed J a transverse track or guideway J is formed, upon which the upper transverse sliding bed J is mounted and guided transversely and operated at will by means similar to those described for operating the fore-and-aft sliding bed J", the rib or guideway J having a longitudinal channel midway of the rib, into which a lug J from the lower side of the sliding bed J projects, while a screw J longitudinally stopped on the left-hand side of the sliding bed J, extends in the groove and takes in the lug and has a milled head J, by which it may be operated to adjust the work-holder bed transversely. The upper surface of the bed J is provided with T-shaped or undercut channels J &c., for the purpose of securing rigidly in any desired position a work-holder.

For the purpose of holding a blank from which a punch is to be formed the workholder may be such as illustrated in Figs. 11, 12, 25, 26, and 27. It comprises the vertical right-angular post or bracket J which is secured by small bolts 3' through its foot-flange J the lower swivel-heads of the bolts being engaged in the cross-heads of the undercut or T-shaped channels. K is a right-angular frame adapted to operate as a clamp to secure the blank, having flanges K at each vertical edge and having within said flanges gibs K, which are adjustable to clamp the punclrblankin the work-holder, such ad justment being eliected by screws K, set through the flanges K. K are guide-screws set into the gibs and entering the slots 7; 713 in the sides of the holder K to guide and retain the gibs as they are adjusted up against the block or blank. K is a nut through which an adj usting-screw I extends through journals in lugs J which project from one side of the angle-bracket J' such screw being provided with a thumb-head K at the lower end to rotate it to cause the nut K' to move up and down upon it. From this nut a finger K extends through a vertical slot J in the side of the post J and into the adjacent side of the work-holder K. By this means when the screw K is rotated the work-holding clamp K is adjusted vertically on the post J The vertical adjustment of the work determines the depth of cut made by the tool, the variations of which, while very important, are exceedingly slight, being often microscopic, and it is necessary therefore that this adjustment should be accurate to the utmost possible degree, and for this reason all lost motion or play between the parts concerned in the movement should be avoided. To this end I split the end of the finger K which protrudes into the worleholtling clamp K, and through the edge of that side of the latter I set a screw K, which has a tapering, head which enters the split in the finger K and by means of the cap-nut K, which extends outside the bracket J drawing the screwhead inward the finger is spread and caused to take hold of the work-holding clamp K rigidly and without play. For a similar purpose I split the nut K outwardly from the threaded aperture and set a clamp-screw K through the parts to clamp them together and prevent any play on the thread of the screw KR. The work-holding clamp K is made fixed and drawn firm in any position to which it is vertically adjusted by being bound at the angle into the angle of the post I and for this purpose the post is slotted at J through the angle, and the stud-screw K, which protrudes as a stem from the workholder'elamp K, extends through said slot and receives a binding-nut K outside of a washer K, which fits the outer angle of the post and receives the direct pressure of the nut by which the work-holder is clamped firmly into the corner of the post.

For the purpose of holding a block for a die or matrix for type-casting I prefer to employ the holder represented in Figs. 28, 29,30, and 31. This die-holder comprises a baseplate L, which is adapted to be secured by the screws ZZ, cooperating with the flange nut Z, adapted to engage the T-shaped slots J of the bed .1 On the base L is a dovetailed guide-rib L, on which the bed L is adapted to slide right and left, customary provisions by means of a gib L being made for preventing lateral play at the slide-bearing. Z l separated by the transverse bridge plate or partition L in its upper side. The forward walls of the chambers are cut away between the ends and the partition L leaving standing the corner-posts L L ,said posts being connected by the top bar L, which is secured also to the bridge-plate L. A plate Z, secured on the upper side of the rear wall, overhangs the chamber and cooperates with the bar L to stop the matrix-blank upwardly, as hereinafter explained. In the bottom of each of the chambers throughout its entire length is formed an undercut or inverted-T-shaped channel L and closing the ends of said channel there are secured fast to the ends of the bed L" plates L L through which are set and in which are journaled screws L L which extend longitudinally in the channels at opposite sides of the partition L,and in said channels are travelers L through which the screws L take, respectively. Said travelers have each a stem L, which is threaded and receives ajaw L designed to clamp the die block or blank against the middle partition L. The purpose of threading the stem L of the travelers L" is to permit vertical adjustment thereon of the jaws L Said jaws are necessarily non-rotatable on such stems, and such vertical adjustment is effected by providing in the jaws sleeves L having at their lower ends flanges L ,provided with corresponding seats in the lower ends of the jaws, said sleeves being threaded interiorly to receive the stems L and slotted or notched at the upper ends to adapt them to be rotated by a suitable tool to raise the jaws on the stems or permit them to descend.

The jaws L are rabbeted at L, facing the partition L, to receive the die-blanks, and at the front and rear ends of the jaws there are pivotally secured the cheeks M M, which operate as levers for causing the blanks to be set accurately in position gaged by their upper surfaces, inwhich the impression is to be cut, and against the bridge-plate, as will appear from the following description, to wit: Said checks have fingers M and M, which project, respectively, upward and forward past the planes of the rabbet-faces, respectively, of the jaws, the pivots of said cheeks being below the horizontal plane of the finger M and back of the vertical plane of the finger M. A blank from which a matrix is to be cut, (shown at N in Fig. 29,) made a little longer than the width of the chamber Z, being entered under the bar L and lodged on the fingers l/ t with its inner end overhung by the flange Z leans against the fingers M so that as the jawis advanced toward the bridge L, the outer face of the The bed L has longitudinal chambers block being brought up against the vertical face of the bridge, the blank, as the jaw further advances, is pushed back into the rabbet L forcing the fingers M" back, thereby tilting the lever-cheeks M on their pivots and causing the fingers M to rise and carry the blank upward, whereby it is brought up snu l a ainst a flan e 1" and bar L at the a 3 a a same time that it is forced flat against the vertical face of the bridge L". This insures the setting of the blanks in a position gaged accurately by the face which abuts against the bridge and the upper face which is to be cut, notwithstanding slight variations in the thickness and width of the blanks.

The two chambers of the matrix-holder are provided as a matter of economy, because the work which is done in producing, for example, a typeinatrix'cannot be begun and finished with the same tool, but must be first outlined, roughened out with one tool, and then finished with a finer tool, and since the setting of the tools requires great accuracy and consumes time it is desirable to avoid changing tools as much as possible. By mounting two blanks in the holder and two corresponding patterns on the pattern-table matrixes may be roughened out in both blanks with the same roughing-out tool and afterward finished with the same finishing-tool. When the matrix is being made by reduction from a pattern many times larger than the matrix, a reduction of one-fiftieth of the pattern being very frequently necessary in order to carry the work the distance necessary to bring the tool which has been working, for example, in the right-hand matrix into a proper position to work in the lefthand matrix, the matrix being of necessity cut with a goodmargin of metal between the depression and the edge of the block, the travel necessary to be given to the workholder, including the total of both such margins on the matrix-block, added to the width of the bridge-plate L,would be several times the lateral dimension of the letter and would necessitate, therefore, mounting the patterns corresponding to these two matrices at a distance apart on the pattern-table several times the entire width of the pattern. letter one-sixteenth of an inch wide whose matrix might be cut from a pattern, say, four inches wide, the matrix depressions in the two blocks mounted in the work-holder being separated by an interval of probably not less than one-half an inch or eight times the width'of the letter,'would require the patterns to be separated on the pattern-table eight times the width of the pattern, or thirtytwo inches. It will be recognized that this would require an altogether impracticable and prohibitive extent for the pattern-table and for the range of movement of the tracercarrier traveler from which the lateral movement is communicated. In order to avoid this difficulty and yet be able to pass from one matrix to another without change of tool Thus for a or mounting, I provide the devices which will now be described for shifting the die-holder on the work-carrier an amount corresponding accurately with the interval omitted from between the patterns on the pattern-table when said patterns are mounted, as they may be, close together instead offor example, in the case supposed-thirty-two inches apart, so that such shift, having been made with the pantograph connections, will provide for the remainder of the interval which it is necessary for the work to be moved, such movement being the result of the movement of the tracer in passing over the adjacent side line of the patterns. This mechanism consists of a lever L, fulcrumed at its rear end on the base L and extending through the carriage L, which is slotted underneath the chambers, as seen at L" in Figs. 28, 2i), and 31, said slot being at the middle narrowed to the width of the lever, widening both ways from such middle point to the lateral edges. Upon the forward side of the base L is secured an upwardly-notched segment L and to the lever L are pivoted two dogs L and L, adapted to engage the notches of the segment L These notches are V-shaped and separated by V-shaped teeth, and the dogs, similarly V- shaped at their engaging noses, are so mounted in the lever that the distance between their points is not an exact multiple of the width of the notches of the segment, but being just perceptibly greater than a full multiple of that unit distance plus one-half the said unit. Stop-screws L are set through the plates L at both ends of the carriage L, which stop against the ends of the guide-rib L of the plate L, said screws being provided with locknuts L, binding against plates L to secure the stop-screws. These stop-screws are adjusted to allow to the carriage L on the base plate L when the operator desires to shift the carriage by means of the lever L only the movement necessary to bring corresponding points in the two blanks under the tool before and after the shifting movement, when the tracer is carried from one pattern to a cor responding point on the other pattern. The dogs L and L, having the function of looking the carriage at the position to which it is adjusted by the lever, accomplish that purpose fully by virtue of the fact that their V- shaped teeth are separated a distance which is not a multiple of the distance between consecutive teeth of the segment If. Manifestly if there were but one dog or if the two dogs were spaced a distance which is a multiple of the teeth'spaces the lever would be adapted to lock the carriage only at positions corresponding to the teeth-spaces and not at intermediate positions. lVith the construction described, however, wherever the carriage is set either one dog will exactly and fully engage a notch of the segment and the other will strike on the inclined side of a tooth and by the force of the spring tending to enter the notch adjacent to the tooth will take up any slack that might otherwise exist or both dogs failing to register exactly with notches of the segment will each enter part way and lodging upon oppositely-inclined faces will secure the carriage without play exactly in the position to which it has been carried by the lever before the dogs were dropped on the seg ment.

For the purpose of holding plates to be engraved or plates from which patterns are to be cut to be used on the pattern-table to control the cutting subsequently of matrices and punches I employ a work-holder (shown in Figs. 32 and 33) which comprises a bed Y, which is adapted to be secured on the upper sliding bed J in the same manner as the other work -ho1ders-that is to say, by a downwardly-headed bolt y, whose head engages in the undercut or T-shaped channels of the bed J Since the upper ends of the bolts 1 cannot be conveniently made accessible for the purpose of tightening them, 1 form the bed Y with a rib Y on the under side, into which the bolts y are seated, and into said rib from one side I set the screws Y having taper-point at 9 adapted to enter a lateral V-shaped notch 11" in each of the bolts 1 so that by screwing in the screws Y the bolts 9 are forced upward and their heads at the lower ends are caused to bind in the T- shaped slots of the bed J. To facilitate disengagement, a small spring y may be lodged above the bolts 1 tending to force them downward and relax the grasp of the heads upon the bed J. The upper side of the bed Y has undercut or T- shaped flanges Y extending in two horizontal directions at right angles to each other, subdividing the face of the bed into rectangles, the channels being at different distances apart over the different parts of the bed for convenience in grasping plates of different sizes, and at one edge of the bed it has an upstanding flange Y. Y are clamps which are connected by screws Y to slides Y in the undercut channels and adapted to be set and secured at any positions in said channels to adapt the clamps to bind the plate firmly between them and the lateral flange Y.

It is often desirable to out plates or patterns mounted on the work'carrier from a design drawn on a sheet which may be mounted 011 the pattern-table. In such case evidently the skill of the operator must be employed to keep the tracer accurately following the lines of the drawing, the work being different in this respect from that which is required when a pattern is being followed whose channels or upraises absolutely guide the tracer. In such work-that is, following a drawingirregular or curved lines can be traced only as the operator has skill to keep the tracer following the drawings; but straight lines fore and aft or right and left may be followed by means of guides with which I provide the tracer-carrier. In the drawings I have shown two separate devices having this purpose and accomplishing it in different ways, each adapted, respectively, for special lines of work. Upon each of the travelers of the tracer-carrier at the forward edge of the rightand-left traveler and at the right-hand end of the fore-and-aft traveler I mount in suitable lugs 13 rods B and on each of said rods I mount a plurality of adjustable clips or stops which are represented in Figs. 39 and 40 and comprise each a two-part collar B- b provided with a set-screw B for clamping it to the rod, and a disk B retained between the two parts of the collar and rotatable thereon, the disk having a finger-lever B and a stop-tooth 17" at right angles to each other, as seen in Fig. 40, fixed with respect to the path over which the traveler moves, and midway between the extreme limits of the path of the traveler is the abutment 15*, which stands in the path of the tooth b of the disk B when said disk is set with the tooth projecting directly downward, the disk being adapted to be turned, however, so that the tooth will not collide with the stop as the traveler moves. When a design to be traced contains direct foreand-aft lines, one of the clips of the rightand-left tracer will be set to collide with the abutment B at a proper point to bring the tracer over said right-and-left line, and the operator can then trace such line by a direct fore-and-aft movement of the tracer only applying slight lateral pressure in a direction to hold the clip against the stop without the necessity for guiding the tracer steadily in its fore-and-aft travel. Similarly when a direct right-.and-left line is to be traced a stop may be set on the fore-and-aft traveler in a position to collide with the abutment when the tracer is over the right-and-left line, and thereupon right-and-left movement may be given with slight pressure in a direction to hold the clip against the stop, with the result that the line will be accurately traced without requiring special steadiness of hand or accuracy of eye on the part of the operator. Another expedient for a similar purpose, but more useful in some situations and less useful in others than that described, is

shown in Fig. It consists of a clampingwedge B secured on a spring-finger B on the under side of each of the travelers of the tracer-carrier. A screw B" is set into the traveler from the edge parallel with the guideways and provided with a taper-point and adapted to operate upon the inclined face of the wedge to force it downward-that is, toward the track-plate on which the slider travels. By screwing inward the screw B it will be seen that the traveler may be locked firmly to the track-plate, so that sliding movement in the direction afforded by such traveler will be prevented, and the tracer will thereby be able to follow only lines which correspond to the movement of the other traveler of the tracer-carrier. This device is particularly useful in tracing parallel lines, requiring, however, the resetting of the tracer for each line, the screw B being withdrawn sufficiently to relax the wedge and permit the traveler thus bound to be moved to a new position to follow a new line, and then secured by driving in the screw B, as before.

I will now describe the tool holding and operating mechanism, which is illustrated in Figsl, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10. Attheleft-hand end of the base A, I mount the rigid bracket A, having the vertical face A, provided with the guide-rib A adapted to retain and guide the tool-carriage A, which may be vertically adjusted at its sliding engagement with the bracket A by means of the screw A which is provided with a lock-nut A above the lug A,rigid with the bracket and through which the screw passes and in which it operates when rotated to carry the carriage A up or down. The carriage A terminates at its end remote from the bracket in a split head A, whose two members are provided with lugs for the clamping bolts or screws a d and a third thumb-screw a between them, whereby the split head may be adjusted so that the tool-holder may be retained without lateral play and guided in the head and may be removed without dissection. The toolholder proper thus longitudinally guided in the head A comprises the sleeve V, which extends through the head A and has the rib c, which lodges in the rift of the split head A, and is thereby prevented from rotating in said head and is adapted to be accurately held therein, as described. Said sleeve V extends above said head and receives the sleeve or collar V, which is screwed onto it, said collar being in two parts which form between them a seat for the ring V which is embraced by and diametrically pivoted to the forked fingers W of the lever W, which is fulcrumed at the rear of the head on the upper end of a short link W", whose lower end is connected pivotally to the upper end of the post A, mounted rigidly to the rear end of the arm A of the head A, the lever W" thus serving as the instrument for lifting the tool-holder without interfering with the rotation of the sleeve or collar V. In order that there may be no possibility of play in the threads between the collar V and the sleeve V, I employ a supplemental sleeve V, having a flange V overhanging the upper end of the sleeve V, the latter sleeve being recessed to receive the body of the supplemental sleeve, allowing an interval between the two, in which is lodged a coiled spring V, which reacts between the two sleeves V and V, both of which are screwed onto the same thread on the sleeve V. A pin 12, set through the flange V in the sleeve V, holding the two sleeves relatively non-rotatable, causes the supplemental sleeve to act after the manner of a lock-nut in so far that the tension of the spring operates to take up all the slack in the threads, but without the characteristic of a lock-nut, so as to prevent easy rotation of the two sleeves together as one upon the IIO sleeve V. \Vithin the sleeve V, at the lower end, is a lining-sleeve V, which constitutes the lower journ al-bearin g of the rotating toolcarrier. It has a flange V at the bottom, which abuts against the lower end of the sleeve V. The axial bore of the non-rotating lining-sleeve V widens from about the middle of its length toward the lower end on a long taper, as seen at V lVithin the sleeve V, at the upper part above the head A, is a sleeve V which serves as the upper journalbearing of the rotating tool-carrier. It extends for some distance above the top of the sleeve V, and the pulley V is journaled outside of it, and to its upper end, above the pulley, is screwed a collar V fiwhich constitutes the lower ball-seat of a thrust-bearing for the tool-carrier, which extends within the sleeve V through said collar and is connected back to the pulley outside the collar by a sleevecoupling V, as will appear. \Vithin the sleeve Y and extending both above and below it is a rotating tool-carriersleeve V which atthe lower end has the long taper enlargement V, corresponding to the taper enlargement of the bore of the sleeve V, and affords an accurate journal-bearing for said tool-carrier, and at the extreme lower end of said sleeve V its own axial bore is reduced at a short taper V to seat the tapered and split head of the tool-chuck V' which extends through the whole length of the tool'carrier and through whose entire extent the tool V extends, protruding from both ends. The coupling V comes into engagement with the hub of the pulley V by means of corresponding projections and recesses at the proximate ends of said parts, as illustrated in Fig. 9, and in the chamber of the coupling, above the lower ball-seat V, are housed the balls V, the upper ball-seat V, the adj usting-nut V for taking up lost motion in said ball-bearings, and a spring t for easing the ball-bearing without allowing it vertical slack motion. The adjusting-nut V has the set-screws 1; to secure it against rotation on the upper threaded end of the sleeve V on which itis rotated to take up motion in the ball-bearings. The chuck V has a collar or flange V' which is rigid with it, and stands a little above the end of the hub Y of the coupling V when the chuck is forced down into the taper-seat, which causes it to grip the tool at the lower end, and onto the hub V, which is exteriorly threaded, there is screwed the thumbnut V, which, engaging above the flange V tends to crowd the chuck downward to make it grasp the tool. The upper end of the chuck is split and provided with the nut V" to close it up to grasp the tool at the upper end. V

is a cap apertured at the center of its head to admit the lower end of the nut V and at its lower end screwed onto the hub of the pulley V housing the coupling V and the entire joint formed between the same and the pulley to prevent oil being thrown off by the rotation. When the tool is operating in the work,

the upward pressure caused by the action of the work against it, tending to force upward thelower ball-seat V, is received by the balls V, which are interposed between the lower flanged end of the sleeve V and the ball-case V", which is screwed onto the lower end of the sleeve V' and has a sleeve-like flange V, which extends up outside the flange V and outside the lower end of the sleeve V, which is exteriorly rabbeted to receive said flange within the lower end of the head A. This construction adapts the nut V when screwed down on the upper threaded end of the sleeve V to close up both ball-bearings described, which, it will be observed, are interposed simply to take the thrust, no easing device being necessary for the vertical journal-bearings which the rotating carrier V obtains in the sleeve V at the lower end norat the upper end,where the bearin g is obtained between the hub of the pulley V and the outer surface of the sleeve V Each of the ball-bearings is provided with'a ball-carrier V, (illustrated in Fig. 8,) which is in the form of an angular cup, having apertures in its bottom plate, through which sufficient segments of the balls protrude to afford bearing upon the adjacent seat. It will be understood that the purpose of this device is merely to space the balls, obviating the necessity of making them till the track and substituting for the friction which they would in that event have upon each other the very much less friction which the very slight weight of the cup causes upon them.

In the use of this machine it becomes necessary to set the tool with extreme accuracy as to its depth, so that in substituting a finishing tool, for example, for the roughing-out tool the latter may reach and not materially out below the surface cleared by the roughing-out tool, (except to the extent that the finishingtool, set when inserted to the precise depth at which the roughing-out tool stood when about to be removed, will lengthen as it becomes heated with its work, and will thereby operate upon the surface cleared by the roughingout tool simply to properly finish that surface.) For the purpose of such accurate setting of the tool I provide, mounted on the forward side of the carriage A just to the left of the head A, a setting device,which is illustrated, in connection with parts with which it cooperates, in Figs. 34: and 35, its general relation being also seen in Figs. 2 and 4-. A vertical slidebearing plate X is made fast to the forward side of the carriage A, and a vertically-adjustable slide block or carriage X is suitably mated with said slide-bearing, with the usual provision for maintaining a close fit. A longitudinal channel at X" in the guide-bearing receives the lug f in the sliding block or carriage, and a screw X, longitudinally stopped and j ournaled in the slide-bearing plate, takes into the lug and is thereby adapted when rotated to adjust the slide-block vertically. The screw X has a flange X, which matches the 

